Systems and Methods for Healthcare Facility Contactless Communication

1. A method for clinician and patient contactless communication, comprising: receiving, by a communication management computing system from a clinician video conferencing unit, a request for a video conference, wherein the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned external of a hospital room of a patient, wherein a pillow speaker is positioned within the hospital room at a first location, wherein a room-mounted video conferencing unit is separate from the pillow speaker and positioned within the hospital room at a second location, wherein the pillow speaker comprises a microphone and a speaker, and wherein the room-mounted video conferencing unit comprises a video camera; provisioning, by the communication management computing system, an audio communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the pillow speaker; subsequent to provisioning the audio communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the pillow speaker, receiving, by the communication management computing system from the clinician video conferencing unit, a request for a video feed from the room-mounted video conferencing unit; provisioning, by the communication management computing system, a video communication channel between the video camera of the room-mounted video conferencing unit and the clinician video conferencing unit for real-time video display of the patient to the clinician on the clinician video conferencing unit; and concurrently maintaining, by the communication management computing system, the audio communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the pillow speaker and the video communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the room-mounted video conferencing unit.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned in a hallway proximate to an entrance of the hospital room.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned at a nurse's station.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the hospital room is within a health facility and the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned external of the health facility.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the clinician video conferencing unit comprises a video camera, and the method further comprises: provisioning, by the communication management computing system, a video feed from the video camera of the clinician video conferencing unit to the room-mounted video conferencing unit for real-time video display of the clinician to the patient on the room-mounted video conferencing unit.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising: activating, by the communication management computing system, the video camera of the room-mounted video conferencing unit and the video camera of the clinician video conferencing unit responsive to receiving the request for the video feed from the room-mounted video conferencing unit.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein provisioning the audio communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the pillow speaker comprises activating the microphone and the speaker of the pillow speaker without patient interaction.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the room-mounted video conferencing unit is a component of an in-room informational display computing system.

9. A healthcare video conferencing system, comprising: a clinician video conferencing unit comprising a microphone, a speaker, a video camera, and a display screen, wherein the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned external to a hospital room; a room-mounted video conferencing unit comprising a video camera and a display screen, wherein the room-mounted video conferencing unit is positioned at a first location within the hospital room; a pillow speaker comprising a microphone and a speaker, wherein the pillow speaker is separate from the room-mounted video conferencing unit and is positioned within the hospital room at a second location; a communication management computing system comprising a memory and a processor, wherein the memory stores instructions which when executed cause the processor to: provide an audio communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the pillow speaker; and subsequent to providing the audio communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the pillow speaker, providing a video communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the room-mounted video conferencing unit.

10. The healthcare video conferencing system of claim 9 , wherein the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned in a hallway proximate to an entrance of the hospital room.

11. The healthcare video conferencing system of claim 9 , wherein the clinician video conferencing unit is a positioned at a nurse's station.

12. The healthcare video conferencing system of claim 9 , wherein the hospital room is within a health facility, and the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned external of the health facility.

13. The healthcare video conferencing system of claim 9 , wherein the audio communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the pillow speaker is provided without patient interaction.

14. The healthcare video conferencing system of claim 9 , wherein audio from the patient is collected from the microphone of the pillow speaker and provided to the clinician video conferencing unit by the communication management computing system and wherein video of the patient is collected from the video camera of the room-mounted video conferencing unit and provided to the clinician video conferencing unit by the communication management computing system.

15. The healthcare video conferencing system of claim 14 , wherein audio from the clinician is collected from the microphone of the clinician video conferencing unit and provided to the speaker of the pillow speaker by the communication management computing system and wherein video of the clinician is collected from the video camera the clinician video conferencing unit and provided to the room-mounted video conferencing unit by the communication management computing system.

16. The healthcare video conferencing system of claim 15 , further comprising a tablet computing device, wherein the room-mounted video conferencing unit is a component of the tablet computing device.

17. A method for clinician and patient contactless communication, comprising: receiving a request for a video conference from a clinician video conferencing unit, wherein the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned external of a hospital room of a patient, wherein a pillow speaker is positioned within the hospital room at a first location, wherein a room-mounted video conferencing unit is separate from the pillow speaker and positioned within the hospital room at a second location, wherein the pillow speaker comprises a microphone and a speaker, and wherein the room-mounted video conferencing unit comprises a video camera; provisioning an audio communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the pillow speaker; provisioning a video communication channel between the video camera of the room-mounted video conferencing unit and the clinician video conferencing unit for real-time video display of the patient to the clinician on the clinician video conferencing unit; and concurrently maintaining the audio communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the pillow speaker and the video communication channel between the clinician video conferencing unit and the room-mounted video conferencing unit.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned either in a hallway proximate to an entrance of the hospital room or at a nurse's station.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein the hospital room is within a health facility and the clinician video conferencing unit is positioned external of the health facility.

20. The method of claim 17 , wherein the clinician video conferencing unit comprises a video camera, and the method further comprises: provisioning a video feed from the video camera of the clinician video conferencing unit to the room-mounted video conferencing unit for real-time video display of the clinician to the patient on the room-mounted video conferencing unit.